White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), All pseudo-absence/background points, Cropped to 750 m isobath, all covariates (u and v become vel_mag) and seals, evaluated using all metrics

Nowcast and Forecast Maps

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	roc_auc	boyce_cont	brier_class	tss_max
rf	0.9573304	0.9923065	0.8280958	0.0347832	0.9732101
bt	0.8161926	0.8810836	0.9060248	0.1315639	0.6426528
maxnet	0.6006565	0.7363656	0.9493787	0.2276272	0.3980232
gam	0.7680525	0.7739727	0.9712828	0.1583010	0.3956743
glm	0.7231947	0.7124310	0.7741528	0.1754086	0.3776151

Variable Importance